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Polar comes equipped with Android Wear M600 fitness watch

Aug

3

2016

Polar introduces the M600, a waterproof sports watch with a heart rate sensor. The wearable has a 1.3 “screen with a resolution of 240×240 pixels, runs on a MediaTek-soc with two cores, has 512MB of RAM and 4GB of storage.

The Finnish manufacturer is the Polar M600 optimized smartwatch for athletes. The optical heart rate monitor works with six LEDs, which should ensure higher accuracy than competitive wearable devices that use one or two LEDs. The watch has a IPX8 rating, which means that users can swim with them and can dive to ten meters deep.

The resolution in combination with the screen size is good for a pixel density of 260ppi. The screen is covered with Gorilla Glass 3 Corning. The watch is equipped with WiFi and Bluetooth, and weighs 63 grams. There are two physical buttons: on / off switch and a button on the front which is useful according to Polar during training.

The Android Wear watch uses the MediaTek MT2601-soc, which features two ARM Cortex-A7 cores at 1.2 GHz. The battery has a capacity of 500mAh and must train provide a useful life of two days, or eight hours in combination with an Android smartphone. In accordance Polar used with an iPhone is the battery properly train for a day or eight hours.

The Polar M600 is the first Android Wear watch from the manufacturer. The smartwatch comes in the third quarter on the market for a suggested retail price of 349.90 euros. Polar previously made all fitness trackers that work with Android and iOS, as the Polar M400.